FFDSHOW is an open source DirectShow decoding filter designed to decompress many formats, some of which include XviD, Windows Media Video (WMV), DivX and MPEG-1/MPEG-2. It uses code from several other freeware/open-source projects such as mplayer for visual enhancement, libavcodec rom ffmpeg for decompression and basing its-self on another DirectShow filter from XviD.

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FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing
DivX, XviD, Windows Media Video (*.WMV), MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project for video decompression, postprocessing code from
mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL'ed
educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder.

FFDSHOW (All in one codec) 2004.08.08 is licensed as Freeware for the Windows operating system / platform without restrictions. FFDSHOW (All in one codec) is available to all software users as a free download (Freeware).

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